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Date: 1651, 1668
"For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within, why may we not say that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?"
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)